I'm a low-fi/raw BM fan and this is pretty cool, I must say. Tyranny is a good song. Didn't much care for the Transilvanian Hunger cover, though. Classic, minimalistic second wave song - but way overdone. An even longer cover with a different tempo is hard to get through. But your originals are good, so kudos, Blashyrkh.

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Count Dirt Nap on DragonForce wrote:

What happened to their old vocalist? Did he move SOOOO FAAAAAR AWAAAAYYYYY?

I'm a low-fi/raw BM fan and this is pretty cool, I must say. Tyranny is a good song. Didn't much care for the Transilvanian Hunger cover, though. Classic, minimalistic second wave song - but way overdone. An even longer cover with a different tempo is hard to get through. But your originals are good, so kudos, Blashyrkh.

Vahrzaw, an Australian Black Metal band that I discovered about six months, have put three demos and couple of EPs up on their bandcamp for free download, as well as a full-length for a few bucks. http://vahrzaw.bandcamp.com/

The first demo (from the year after the band formed, mostly playing old Necrosis material) can be downloaded for free here:http://skewered.bandcamp.com/album/homegrown-brutalityIt's really raw in production quality. It sounds like a rehearsal, to be fair. The band has matured a lot since then. More experience over the years and all that jazz.

Hear the progression? The new stuff's getting more technical (but more on that later this year/early next year).

Acolytes of Moros have a doom-metal four-track demo up on bandcamp for free. Heard about the Ancient Greek mythical entity Moros, then looked it up on here to see if the name was taken, and in doing so I discovered this band. I've not listened to much yet, but I'm impressed so far, especially by the vocals;

Warfuck (French grindcore) made their 2012 debut The Weak And The Wicked available for free download (I know I've posted about the band in two threads now, I'd like to add that I'm not affiliated with the band aside from them emailing the album for submission at my blog):

Martial Black Metal/Neo-Folk band from Québec, Souverain, is offering their « Prélude Barbare » (featuring 3 roughly mixed and unmastered songs from their upcoming album, and one exclusive track) to download for free, in order to promote their upcoming full length album.

Solstheim, Scottish black-metal in the style of Enslaved, Emperor and the like, have their début EP on Bandcamp for "pay what you like, including nothing" download. Noticed this while reviewing it, and thought it was worth sharing;

Not that this stuff is highly sought after, but since the good folks at Tripod.com decided to suspend the archived web page (1998) of this early '90s Belgian band, and since Renaissance's long out of print album "the Death of Art" (Shiver Records, 1994) was remastered recently, the album is made available again for free downloading over here, and on Soundcloud.

Didn't intend to time this with Hooded Menace, but interesting coincidence as they are a pretty big influence. Just released a doom metal EP with Northern Torment today. Would love it if people checked it out. Good for people who are into Acid Witch, Runemagick, Church of Misery, or stuff like that.

Ophir, ritualistic post-BM ambient/drone/noise. 3 albums, each with two long tracks, featuring layers of distorted reverb-drenched guitars creating a cacophony of buried melodies and atonalities, like cascades of poisoned honey burning into your ears. 1st album "Nutmeg" is bit more atonal and challenging than the others, but "Cebu" and "Spikenard" are simply entrancing.Free/pay what you want @:http://ophir666.bandcamp.com/